Usually means: Edible herb, mild onion flavor.
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We found 26 dictionaries that define the word chive:

General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. chive: Merriam-Webster
  2. chive: Collins English Dictionary
  3. chive: Vocabulary.com
  4. Chive, chive: Wordnik
  5. chive: Wiktionary
  6. chive: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  7. chive: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. Chive, chive: Dictionary.com
  9. chive: Online Etymology Dictionary
  10. Chive, The Chive: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Chive: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. chive: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. chive: Rhymezone
  14. Chive: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. chive: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  16. chive: FreeDictionary.org
  17. chive: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. chive: TheFreeDictionary.com
  19. chive: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Epicurus.com Spanish Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. chive: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. chive: Medical dictionary

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. chive, chive: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Chive (chiving), Chive, chive: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A perennial plant, Allium schoenoprasum, related to the onion.
noun:  (in the plural, chives, attributive) The leaves of this plant used as a herb.
noun:  (obsolete) The style and stigma of a flower, especially saffron.
noun:  (Trinidad and Tobago, dialect) The spring onion; The green onion; the scallion.
noun:  A piece cut off; sliver.
noun:  (botany) The filament which supports the anther of a flower; stamen.
noun:  (thieves' cant) A knife.
noun:  (thieves' cant) A file.
noun:  (thieves' cant) A saw.
verb:  (thieves' cant) To stab.
verb:  (thieves' cant) To cut.

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